Chip is an enterprise involved in many industries. According to the division of the industry chain, the core link of a chip from design to delivery mainly includes six parts. First, design software. Chip design software is a key tool for chip companies to design chip structures. Currently, the structural design of chips mainly
It relies on electronic design automation software to complete. This software has been mastered by Wanan Company for a long time, and the software is available for purchase. In comparison, the level of the designer is more important.
Synthetic Group has an independent design team with a total of thirty-five people, all of whom are technicians. Thirty percent are international students from the United States and island countries. These people are already capable of working for Intel and Texas Instruments. They were hired by Wang Haijun with high salaries.
The remaining people are also domestic university graduates, as well as some master's and doctoral students. The way Shensi Group recruits employees is exactly the same as Norinco Group, which is to throw money at them. They are not afraid that you will not come, but that you are not capable.
The second program is the instruction set system. From a technical point of view, the CPU is just a highly integrated collection of millions of small switches. Without an efficient instruction set system, the chip cannot run the operating system and software.
The CPU hardware accepts instructions, completes calculations, and outputs the results in the language used to interact with the software. Each new instruction generally corresponds to one or several pieces of assembly language. After compilation, it corresponds to machine code that can be recognized by the CPU. The instruction set
Support is the result of the joint action of hardware and software. If you want the CPU to support a certain instruction set, you must modify the hardware circuit. If you want the software to support a new instruction set, you must modify the program and recompile it.
Shensi Group and Guowei Company have dedicated departments for this procedure, and they have also established a research and development department in cooperation with Wanan Company.
The third program mainly connects the interfaces of electronic products and services. This is a hardware system. Let alone Shensi Group, even Fantasy Computer Company can do it.
The fourth process is manufacturing equipment, that is, equipment for designing and producing chips. This is the basis. If you don’t even have the equipment, what else will you do? Synthetic Group has spent more than 200 million US dollars to purchase a large amount of equipment. The wealthy SMIC sees
He was also very jealous.
The fifth process is wafer foundry. The wafer foundry is the production workshop for chips from drawings to products. They determine the performance indicators such as the nanometer process used in the chip. This is the strength of SMIC. Of course, the requirements of Synthetic Group are relatively
High, the chip standards designed exceed SMIC's manufacturing standards. They still need to do some upgrades, which have basically been solved now.
The last procedure is packaging testing, which is the last link before the chip enters sales. The main purpose is to ensure the quality of the product. The current development trend of international advanced packaging technology mainly includes flip chip ball grid array packaging format and wafer level packaging.
In wafer-level fan-out packaging, system-level packaging and other technologies, Synthetics Group has caught up from behind and has a greater technological advantage.
There are six processes for chip manufacturing, and each process is indispensable. A single company cannot bear the responsibility and can only support each other through cooperation.
Two years ago, the Domestic Semiconductor Industry Federation was established under the leadership of Synsi, SMIC and Guowei to share information like the Automobile Industry Federation. After the establishment of the Federation, it grew rapidly and many companies joined, including the famous ones in the previous life.
BOE, of course, is now just a display manufacturing company that has just been established for one year, and is far from the company that will have the world's advanced LCD manufacturing level more than ten years later.
The purpose of the Semiconductor Industry Federation is to innovate technology, incubate enterprises, and attract talents. These twelve words are very interesting to think about carefully.
Synsi, SMIC and Guowei are the "troika" of the domestic chip industry today, accounting for almost 99% of the domestic chip industry market, providing "one-stop" services from design to packaging.
But how can three companies be enough? Are Intel, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments powerful? But aren’t there still nearly a hundred semiconductor companies in the United States?
In the future, the semiconductor industry will continue to be refined, just like the technology tree extending to the details. It is impossible for a company to complete all the steps of a complete set of processes. It is not that the company has no ability, but the cost does not allow it to be manufactured by Fuxi No. 2.
To be honest, this was all funded by Liu Lang regardless of cost. In the past three years, Liu Lang invested a total of nearly 300 million U.S. dollars. This money was only an initial investment. If mass production is completed, a large amount of capital will be needed.
, even Liu Lang couldn't stand it after a long time.
Nowadays, many domestic semiconductor industries have begun to emerge. Most of them are private companies. These companies are "defective products" left over from the establishment of United Communications. Strong companies have been merged, and weak companies can only fend for themselves.
self-destruct.
But there are always some strong people who can survive in the cracks. Just like Sun Mingfan, he led a group of people to find a way out. These people acquired companies through the "special enterprise" model, and then started from a certain small part.
Little by little accumulation gradually grew, and finally it occupied a market and laid a solid foundation.
In the previous life, many semiconductor companies developed in this way, such as Zhaoyi Innovation, the leading memory chip design company; Jingjiawei, the leading domestic GPU company; Yangjie Technology, the leading semiconductor discrete device company in my country; Sanan Optics, the global ED chip leader; domestic ID Silanwei, a leading enterprise; Northern Huachang, a domestic semiconductor equipment leader; Zhichun Technology, a high-purity process system integration supplier; Jingrui Creation, a leading domestic microelectronic chemicals company; Sugon, a leading domestic high-performance computing company.
There is also the famous Ziguang Guoxin, which is a semiconductor industry under the famous Ziguang Group and is the leading domestic supplier of integrated circuit chip design and system integration solutions.
In addition, Ingenic Innovation is a leading company in embedded processor chips; Zhongying Electronics is a high-quality IC design company in China; Goodix Technology is a global leader in biometric chips; and Changdian Technology is a leader in domestic semiconductor packaging and testing.
Looking at it this way, the country's semiconductor companies are not weak. At least they have certain advantages in the downstream industry, but there is a serious lack of upstream technology.
After the establishment of the National Semiconductor Industry Federation this century, these "small and micro enterprises" were widely absorbed. Liu Lang also established the Semiconductor Industry Research Institute and regularly hired domestic and foreign scholars to give lectures, in order to provide technical assistance to these "small and micro enterprises".
To be honest, this kind of behavior is like "letting a wolf into the house" for Shensi Group, but it is really important to the country. Only by allowing most enterprises to develop can they withstand greater risks. Only Liu Lang can do this kind of thing. It's really
Become a father and mother at the same time.
Supporting enterprises is one aspect, and the other aspect is attracting and cultivating talents. Synthetic Group is exactly like Norinco in the chip industry. It uses high salaries and technological advantages to recruit outstanding employees from all over the world. Sometimes talents are more important than technology.